How Chinese Death Penalties Are Executed

death penalty Executed by shooting or injection. 《 criminal procedure law 》According to the relevant legal provisions of execute a condemned convict The people's procuratorate at the same level shall be notified to send personnel to supervise on the spot. The death penalty shall be executed by shooting or injection.

Article 263 of the Criminal Procedure Law stipulates that the people's court shall notify the people's procuratorate at the same level to send personnel to supervise on the spot before committing the execution of the death penalty. The death penalty shall be executed by shooting or injection. The death penalty can be executed on the execution ground or designated take into custody Implemented in the site. The judge directing the execution shall verify the identity of the criminal, interrogate him for his last words and letters, and then hand him over to the execution officer for execution. If, before the execution, it is discovered that there may be an error, the execution shall be suspended and reported to the Supreme People's Court for a ruling. The execution of a death sentence shall be made public and not in public. After a death sentence is executed, the court clerk on the scene shall make a written record. The people's court that has handed over the death sentence for execution shall report the execution of the death sentence to the Supreme People's Court. After a death sentence is executed, the people's court that handed it over for execution shall notify the family members of the criminal.